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Windows 7: Files with absolute paths links - How to move them?

We have been using a labeling software from a laptop with Windows Vista for a long time. In that laptop we have thousands of labels stored that we open and edit with such software. Those labels contain logos of companies as absolute paths, that is C:\...\something.jpg , instead of embedding the image on the file.

Now we have installed such software on newer PCs and moved those files to the new PCs. Consequently, the labels appear with the links to the logos broken.

There are 2 sets of files in question, right? A label file and an image file that it is linked to. You can copy the labels to the same C:\folder without issues. Why can't you copy the images to the same places as they were in the original install?

I've discovered that this type of file is actually an XML, which is easy to read by an application!

So now I would need some scripting that makes the following:

1.- I insert a pendrive to the laptop
2.- Create a folder on the parent folder of the pendrive
3.- For each label file on the laptop,
copy the label file to the just created folder of the pendrive
look for any path inside that file. For each path
Copy the file that is pointed by the path to the just created folder of the pendrive
Rename such path on the new file from the pendrive to W:\name-of-the-image.jpg

4.- On the new PC: create the W: unit drive.
5.- Copy all the files from such folder of the pendrive to the W: unit

1.- I've copied all the .itf files into my pendrive.
2.- After that, I've copied one .jpg image to the pendrive.
3.- I've opened one .itf file from the pendrive with notepad and changed the path to the logo, so now it points to the just copied .jpg image on the pendrive.
4.- I've opened the just modified .itf file of the pendrive from another PC which has the labeling software installed and the newly copied jpg image appears as the logo in the label. So that method works!

Now I need a script that makes the following:
Parameters: [Input folder], [Output Folder]
Algorithm:
(I copy all the itf files to my pendrive before executing this algorithm, so we don't loose the initial files in case of an error)
For each .itf file in [Input folder] and its subfolders, search for any tag called Filename inside the itf file and copy such file to the output folder. Then change the Filename tag of the itf file to [outputfolder\image-name.jpg]

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